Sloppy campaign bookkeeping four years ago caught up to Whatcom County Council member Ken Mann, who was fined $300 on Thursday, Dec. 12, for filing late and inaccurate financial reports from his 2009 campaign.

Officials in Latah County say a man who reached a plea agreement in the April 2010 disappearance of a Clarkston, Wash., woman recently offered information that prosecutors hope will help locate her body.

The operator of a 71-year-old northern Idaho silver mine that was beset by fatal and injury accidents two years ago has been hit by another lawsuit, this time filed by four miners who say managers dispatched them deep underground into unsafe working conditions while lying that the area was safe.

The United States has staked out its position for potential negotiations with Canada over a treaty governing hydropower and flood control on the Columbia River, and it seeks to keep more of the energy produced at dams.

National, state and local political leaders called for a vote Friday on a proposed contract between Boeing and Puget Sound machinists, even though local union leaders have already rejected the company's latest offer in the high-stakes negotiations to keep thousands of jobs in the state.